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Environmental Effects

Climate change report: Jeff Bezos & the new wild west show

July 21, 2021
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| Blue Origin, Environmental Effects, Mining, Space Treaties

By Bruce Gagnon, Posted in Organizing Notes, 21 July 2021 Jeff Bezos (the richest man in the world) successfully took his new wild west rodeo show to the edge of space and once returning to Mother Earth had the audacity to lecture us earthlings on a few things. Yahoo news

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The jaw-droppingly high, out-of-this-world carbon footprint of space tourism

July 20, 2021
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| Blue Origin, Environmental Effects, Space Tourism, SpaceX, Virgin

By Eloise Marais, Published by Ideas Ted, 20 July 2021 The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On July 11, Branson ascended 80 km (49 miles) to reach the edge of space in

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Space tourism: environmental vandalism for the super-rich

July 20, 2021
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| Blue Origin, Environmental Effects, Space Tourism, Virgin

By Stuart Parkinson, Posted by Scientists for Global Responsibility (UK), 20 July 2021 The past few weeks have seen some frightening impacts of climate change – from record-breaking temperatures and major wildfires in western Canada and the USA to unprecedented floods in Germany and Belgium. The hottest temperature reliably recorded

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Virgin Group founder Richard Branson launches Virgin Galactic. Terry Caws/Alamy Stock Photo

Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights – imagine a whole industry

July 19, 2021
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| Blue Origin, Environmental Effects, Rockets, Space Tourism, SpaceX, Virgin

By Eloise Marais, Published by The Conversation, 19 July 2021 The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On Sunday 11 July, Branson ascended 80 km to reach the edge of space in his

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Photograph: Joe Marino/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock

How the billionaire space race could be one giant leap for pollution

July 19, 2021
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| Blue Origin, Environmental Effects, Space Tourism, SpaceX, Virgin

By Katharine Gammon, Published by the Guardian, 19 July 2021 One rocket launch produces up to 300 tons of carbon dioxide into the upper atmosphere where it can remain for years Last week Virgin Galactic took Richard Branson past the edge of space, roughly 86 km up – part of

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo uses a type of synthetic rubber as fuel and burns it in nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Environmental concerns grow as space tourism lifts off

July 18, 2021
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| Blue Origin, Environmental Effects, Rockets, Space Tourism, Virgin

By Issam Ahmed, Published by Phys.org, 18 July 2021 After years of waiting, Richard Branson's journey to space this month on a Virgin Galactic vessel was supposed to be a triumphant homecoming. Instead, the jaunt attracted significant criticism—about its carbon footprint. With Jeff Bezos set to launch on a Blue

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Why the U.S. once set off a nuclear bomb in space

July 15, 2021
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| Comment, Environmental Effects, Nukes in Space, Satellites

By Brian Gutierrez, Published by the National Geographic, 15 July 2021 The results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted again with high doses of radiation. It was pitch black when Greg Spriggs’ father brought his family

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Dorothy Pritchard on the Moine near the proposed Spaceport.

Insight: The battle to build UK’s first spaceport in Sutherland

June 20, 2021
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| Environmental Effects, Launch sites, UK

By Dani Garavelli, Published by The Sctosman, 20 June 2021 Sutherland “space crofters” Dorothy Pritchard and Wilma Robertson are standing on the Mhoine - a peat bog stretching from Loch Eriboll to the Kyle of Tongue - and talking about rockets. Situated on the western periphery of the Flow Country,

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